Announcing IBM XIV Host Attachment Kit v2.1.0

It's raining new releases here at IBM HSG, the latest software released from our team is the IBM XIV HAK v2.1.0.

The HAK is already a well known, widely used toolkit, therefore in this post we will focus on what's new in this latest release, and what will you gain by installing or upgrading to this version.

The first feature to note is the added support for version 11.3.0 of XIV microcode and more importantly for the Online Volume Migration (OLVM) feature. Now the "good old" xiv_devlist utility also presents the OLVM state of each and every volume exposed to the server, providing the host and storage administrators an easily accessible tool to stay updated with the migration state of the volumes under their responsibility, without the need to access the XIV Management GUI.

In addition, the recently introduced host diagnostic utility, the XIV Host Profiler , can now be defined as a scheduled task right from the Host Attachment Kit Wizard - xiv_attach. No need to remember to set it separately, the user will be asked during host configuration if a task should be scheduled to run the utility periodically.

We've also improved the xiv_devlist and xiv_syslist commands' CSV file format output utilities. From this release, by adding the --no-headers argument, the column headers will be omitted from the generated CSV file.

On top of the above-mentioned features and enhancements several stability issues were also fixed. The detailed list of those issues can be found in the Release Notes document coupled with the software package.

To download the IBM XIV Host Attachment Kit v2.1.0 and the related documentation , please visit IBM Fix Central. You will need an IBM ID to download the files.